It Ain't Swamp Gas This Time

     This is a political blog.

     Welcome Back to Pottersville and its two predecessors have been concerned with national politics and very little else. It's what my readers come to expect over the 18+ years I've been writing about politics. In fact, to my recollection, I've written only one article that was about UFOs.

     But, since we're talking about spy balloons and, literally, UFOs that the government, as usual, is denying yet not denying in their usual push-and-pull bullshit, that's my in, my fig leaf because it now involves my government and military. It all started with the media circus that was the Chinese "weather balloon" that was finally shot down beyond the Carolina coast, the one the Chinese government said that just happened to fly into our airspace and was beyond their control.

     Then, like George Santos this past winter, every day it was something else.

     As if it wasn't ridiculous enough that, #1, the Chinese spy balloon was allowed to cross the entire country from Alaska to the Carolinas and, #2, that it took an F22 Raptor with Sidewinder missiles to bring down a fucking rubber balloon, the news got exponentially weirder-

     Because, two days ago, we shot down another "weather balloon" over Alaska. Then, the day after, we shot down another flying over Montana, after suspending air traffic over north central Montana. Then today, after, again, suspending air traffic, this time over Lake Huron in Michigan, we shot down yet another "weather balloon".

     Sandwiched somewhere in there was the one that we shot down right over Canada, which we then magnanimously allowed the Canadian government to retrieve.

     Now, I see two scenarios with this, one which is a big problem and the other being an insoluble problem since it'll give us only the option of setting our affairs in order so we can be raptured into a mothership for unspeakable reasons that may or may not include anal probes.

     The first problem is that the Chinese have launched an armada of spy balloons that our military originally did nothing about perhaps because they found holes in our radar. The second is that they're not balloons at all but something more rigid and dangerous. Or something that has, I dunno, a watchful mother ship with mother bear instincts.

     The reason I'm speculating this is because the only craft shot down by us that we've admitted was a weather balloon was the first one shot down past the South Carolina coast. Starting with the second one, the one over Montana, the descriptions got... stranger.

     Suddenly, they were now "high altitude objects" and "radar anomalies" described as being "silverish gray cylindrical objects" with no discernible propulsion systems, which sounds an awful lot like classic and historical descriptions of cigar-shaped spacecraft.

     So, if it's Chinese spy balloons we're shooting down, literally, on a daily basis, then why isn't the government saying so? Or even using it as a convenient cover story?

     Once again, the American public is forced to ask, "What aren't they telling us?"

     Then again, since this is the right wing's response to the balloon circus, maybe we don't want to hear their answers and speculations.